Really though thank you guys SO MUCH for following this dev blog and for your continued support. We’re all completely overjoyed at seeing how fast this blog is growing. It means the world to us!
Hello, and tanks. Everything looks si nice and very well done ! The illustration, the concepts, even the chibis ! But I'm not here to praise your talents all day, so here's my question : In the recent Babylonian post, you mention "people from the stars" ( I don't read and comics, and the Sonic Riders games are a little far for me ) and since there's the "Hanging Garden" ... There's only one thing I can think of : Will the Seedrians be mentioned? (obviously not Cosmo)
The whole Sonic franchise deals a lot with beings from outter space. Take the Wisps, Seedrians and Black arms. Just like them according to Sonic canon the early ancestors of the Babylon Rogues came from space. And because that’s also how the actual real world Babylonians described their own gods, we’re picking that part of lore up >W<
So technically, saying that the ancient Babylonians are canon, also makes all the other alien races like seedrians or black arms canon. BUT. I don’t think we’re going to go too deep into other alien races in the game UwU
If people are interested in knowing I might make a post in the future about the sattk babylonian religion though, explaining some more about the ‘gods’.
Do you have any plans to make a vocal theme for the game?
YES absolutely. There’s gonna be a Theme song for the game with vocals yes! In general there’s gonna be some more custom music to be shared soon enough and I already know it’s gonna be fantastic!
No surprise there, though. Everything Cleffy makes is fantastic!
Also, on another note, because this has been bothering me for so long! ... what do you do if you have original characters but no drawing of them yet? I... write fan fics first and foremost; I don't usually draw, so... most of the drawings I have of the characters are not even half-finished sketches... ;^;
I assume this is about submitting OCs to the game? OwO In that case you can always commission an artist to draw your OC or finish one of the half finished drawings UwU There’s even some artists on tumblr who take requests!~
We do unfortunately need a picture reference though so we don’t make any mistakes in the design as it can’t be changed later. And of course we’d want your OC to look the way you imagined them in the game.
But yes, as I said there are options to get someone else to draw your oc.
Tails looks so cute and cool 😎 I wish their was a face of him blushing
Our Tails is very capable and not easily embarrassed (we’re not fans of helpless ‘pwease save me sonic’-tails). But you’re right. He’d look cute with a blushy face. I agree >W<!
The concept for this game has my full attention. There's not a single thing that's been discussed so far that doesn't only further my curiosity, so I'll be watching this closely for further developments. I hope you guys can resist the great burnout that comes from working on projects like this; coming from someone who's involved in another community-driven ordeal, I know how easy it can be to let that slow down happen. Hang in there guys, loving the sounds of all this so far.
Hello, Wow this means a lot ;w; Thank you so much for your curiosity and support. We’re still in a phase where we’re supre hyped to get this show on the road but being really small team with a HUGE project we have no illusions about burn out.
Especially if life in general gets in the way, like our normal day-time jobs and such. It can and will be tiring along the way. But we’ll do our very best to make sure we are consistently productive while also taking enough breaks to prevent ourselves from burning out.
That goes for you as well. Though now I’m terribly curious what project you’re working on. XD Why must you be on anon. So I can’t love and support you back.
But yes once all the chracter references are out in the open (knuckles is the last one this friday) We’ll be taking a break from consistent dev blog updates for a few weeks so we can crunch down on the Demo and do the whole mandatory christmas with our families thing. (though we’ll still be here to answer questions of course). I’ll have to make a proper announcement for that next monday with proper dates and all. But yes we’re doing our best to keep on top of everything without dying XD
We wish you the absolute best as well with your project (though I still want to know what it is, now) and hope you get rest properly as well. <3
Hello, Aside from a few that we liked too much to ignore, and the few who’re going to be in the Demo, we don’t really have all the slots filled yet. We have gotten more than enough submissions to fill them all but we’re only going to decide which characters get which roles after the submission deadline at the end of December. So aside from the few that I’ve mentioned, nothing’s written in stone yet. <3
From the bottom of my heart. Thank you all so much for your love, support, and time. I truly treasure the opportunity to share this with you all. This album was the result of trying to break from a block, and its one of my favorite things I’ve made. I really hope you all enjoy it. And if you do, I hope you’ll share it with your friends, and you can download it for free, just type in 0.
“Every 10,001 years, the Second Moon appears and transports any who witness it to another dimension. Those in this new dimension are capable of walking through and breathing under water as if it were air. There are many bioluminescent and surreal flora and fauna. Perhaps the most shocking part of this occurrence is the ability to witness past experiences from those who were brought into this dimension. Almost as if watching the scenes play out as if they were happening in front of you in the present. Witnesses are unable to interact with past experiences, but are able to observe them from any perspective or angle, even through the eyes of those they’re observing. Despite all the evidence of past civilizations, there are no obvious signs of any still around. No buildings, no towns, no vehicles, just surreal nature. Those in this other realm are immune from harm or danger. When the observers are returned to their home, they find only 10 minutes and 1 second has passed, despite spending hours there.”
This is not related to Sonic and the True king as such. But if you’re interested you can go check out Cleffy’s new Album! >W<
And we’re gonna be posting the second song they have made for Sattk on friday <3
This week we have a bit less visual stuff to show. But not to worry. We have something -just- as good!!!
We’re going to talk about the Music in Sattk! And soon enough we’ll even give you some music to listen to as well.
Now, Sonic and the True King, is an entirely non-profit project that is being created by a tiny tiny team. So the budget for this game is virtually non-existant. Thus, most of the music used in the game was composed by the incredible Kevin MacLeod who’s Royalty Free music you can find on incompetech.com (I would put in a link but tumblr has recently made posts containing links hidden in the tumblr search feature)
Alls his music is completely free, and yet really good in quality, which has a good- and a bad side.
On the good side, it means we have access to a diverse soundtrack to fit all the scenes you’ll be playing through in Sattk.
On the bad side, there is a high chance that you’ve heard the same tracks in other indie-games before.
BUT, I said most of the music comes from incompetech.com, not all of it.
In fact one part of your tiny tiny developer team happens to be an incredibly talented composer who has already created two amazing tracks for the game which we’ll be sharing with you soon! And they’re also in charge of composing the game’s official theme song. That, however you will most likely have to wait for, until the game’s release.
We hope you’re looking forward to the two tracks we’ll be sharing with you in the next days because we’ve certainly been listening to them on repeat since we got them.
Since I’ve answered some recent asks about our musician I’m really looking forward to sharing some custom music with you! So I’m going to be postponing the talk about the Demo’s setting for one week and instead talk about music next week. <3
I went back to look at the post of the sky amulet and wanted to know that is the hole in the middle a seventh sky shard or am I being paranoid or something.
The Legend only tells of 6 shards that were needed to banish the darkness. That’s all we know UwU. The hole in the middle might have a different meaning? Who knows. I can’t say for sure. ;^D
I thought of this in school and wanted to ask who/what god(s) are in the game and what is his/her/their names.
This is such a fantastic question. Let me try to answer it as best as I can without spoiling anything.
As you know the game plays on Mobius. So as far as known, canon religion goes we have the whole Chaos thing. Chaos, being a god of sorts. I figure we can also count Light and Dark Gaia to the deities.
Now we’re adding a third religion. The ancient, and long gone, babylonian religion. In which we’re completely ignoring the canon from the sonic riders games about genies and whatnot. Instead we’re leaning much closer to the -actual- ancient babylon.
Which, has a lot of gods. Well… “gods”. But trust me you’ll learn a lot about these gods and their story in the game. They are actually quite important to the plot. >W<
Unfortunately that also means I can’t tell you much more. Like their names.
Will there be an multiverse sonic world mentions in the game and what percentage of the soon to be released game is done.
Does Blaze count as multiverse mentions? Because Blaze is definitely in the game. We’re not gonna go into the Archie world though. (Sadly because I really love Scourge but having archie canon for this game would make it too complicated)
And the Tech demo is about 30% done, by which I mean the writing is done. It’s just the art that takes a while, once the art is there it’s just a matter of putting it all together. <3 But it’s getting there. >w<
What is your opinion on OCs that are technically immortal?
How immortal is technically immortal? Sayyyy all of mobius just died. would they survive? Cuz, man, good for them!!!
Immortal OCs are only sad when they’re put into a romance with a mortal character. Otherwise??? Good! Isn’t it the best if your OC can’t die?
If you’re asking if we can use an immortal OC in the game?…. mmm I don’t see why not? They’d just be really really unhappy and lonely after any of the big bad endings.
The more I hear about this project the more I get interested in it. I am really exited even though I know it'll be some time before you can finish the game.
Thank you so much!!! I know it’s still super early in development and we have a long way to go. But we’ll do our super best to keep it interesting for you guys along the way!!! >W<
Trust me, we’re just as excited and wished we were done already XD
But alas. It’s still so much work. It’ll be worth it. I believe in this project, especially now that I’m reading so much lovely feedback!!!
Is this game a turn-based RPG? If so, how complex will the battle system be? Is it 1st person like Dragon Quest or side view like Final Fantasy?
Sonic and the True King and its Demo are Visual Novel games UwU
I assume since it’s a Visual Novel you could say it’s sort of first person, yes.
The battle system is somewhat of an experiment. I haven’t seen many VNs with battle systems, and the few I have seen have replaced the battles with mini-games like bubble shooters.
Our Battle system is decision based. Imagine it like reading an adventure novel that gives you free reign of the main character during the action scenes, but depending on what you decide the other characters react and the outcome of the battle changes.
Some features that we’re going to test for practicality in the demo later are, a persistent healthbar that basically records your ‘mistakes’ during battle. (Mistakes in airquotes here because not every time you can get injured is a mistake. Sometimes it’s what you -have to do- to achieve a specific outcoome) The injuries then carries on into the next fight and so on and so on. Options to be healed are limited and losing all your health results in Game Over.
Status effects like ‘bleeding’ and ‘poison’ are also something we’re testing.
And the last feature we’re only testing so far are timed responses. Which is basically the Visual Novel equivalent to quicktime events. That’s roughly the concept of the battle system. But as I said we’re still testing things out so it might change until the demo comes out.
In Sonic and the True King - Before the Fall, you slip into the non-existant shoes of a crafty little Urchin. One of the many original characters we created for this story! Your entire 8 years of life, you’ve spent in the slums of a glorious city. Feeding off of what the rich threw away.
But there is something about you that makes you different from other kids on the street. And one fateful day, you meet the one person who is willing to see past your dirty rags, and gives you a chance to prove yourself.
Play your cards right and you may just be able to find a welcoming home for a stray kitten like you… and more!
Stay tuned for more information about the SATTK tech demo “Before the Fall”. And of course feel free to shoot us a message if you have questions… we might just have answers for you!
We’re an insanely small team. There’s me, the mod of this blog, who’s also the writer, main artist and programmer (if you can call it that), then there is the extremely talented @doublecleffmusic who is in charge of as much custom music as we can afford. And then we have a third person who may or may not do art for the game, depending on how busy she’ll be with her actual job. And then we have some friends supporting us by giving us input in the story or helping us work out quests. One additional team member would be our voice actor for Silver the Hedgehog who’s going to voice the intro of the game UwU
Now, our musician, Cleffy, doesn’t need to be anonymous and in fact you should all go check their stuff out. We’re going to be posting some custom music on this blog soon so you can see what their work is like. But really, check ‘em out. They’re just about to release a new album UwU
Myself and the other artist would like to remain anonymous. Mostly to keep our artist names out of the search engines for reasons related to our actual jobs <3
Our friends will of course remain anonymous as well.
And we will announce our voice actor once that is all confirmed and figured out and paid for >W<
Well this is a non-profit game and since we own no rights to the sonic characters, the OCs or the world of mobius, we cannot legally make money with this game. However making a visual novel is never cheap.
So if you are feeling generous we have a Ko-Fi page that you can donate to. <3 We’re so grateful if you’re even just considering supporting us and this project.
Will there be a date and site for the game release? I love your blog by the way ☺️❤️
Well actually now that you mention it, one thing we’re aiming to test with the demo is the hosting website. There’s currently three we’re looking at. Those being:
All three allow the hosting of fangames such as this one. So they would be suitable. However the demo will feature a small optional survey at the end where you can tell us how you liked the hosting site. We’ll make sure to look further into the options, though, and make a proper announcement at some point.
The full game is still going to be featured on several websites to make it easier.
Regarding release dates. Not at all. The Demo will most likely come out between january and february 2019 sometime.
The full game hower… We would LIKE TO finish the game by the time the Sonic Movie comes out in November 2019. So in about a year from now on. Ideally we’d even like for the Beta testing to be done by then. However it is still almost impossible to say how realistic that will be.
We will try our very best UwU
And thank you so so much! Your questions are always delightful!!! >W<
So was the game sonic and the true king inspired by some other sonic game or was it your own idea.
Well I mean considering it’s a -Sonic- game it had to have been inspired by Sonic in general right? So I can’t claim it was my idea originally.
But in general yes. Sattk has a lot of different inspirations. For example the storybook series, like Sonic and the Black knight and Sonic and the secret rings, which probably explains the style of this game’s title.
And then of course there’s the Sonic Riders games which deal with the Babylon theme which we’re REALLY gonna get into in sattk. And then of course there’s Sonic Forces which inspired the anonymous protagonist.
Aside from that the story is still entirely ours and since Visual novels are so overused for dating games we wanted to make something that has no dating in it at all. Just a good old Sonic adventure!!!
So, uh... I just stumbled across this page a couple of days ago, but because I'm busy I don't have time to go through all of the content and process it in order to understand it. So, here's my questions: when you say "game" do you mean that you're actually making a game out of this? Is this an RP blog since I've seen a few submission post of fan characters it made me wonder? Or is it simply an ask blog? Perhaps a place to organise your visual novel and share it at the same time? I am so confused
Hello there, No worries at all! The short version is: No, this is not an RP blog, and Yes, we’re making an actual game. And there is going to be a tech demo (A small stand-alone game that shows off the the main game’s gameplay features and such) early next year <3
The game is going to be a Visual Novel, and the OCs that we’re casting will become background characters or even quest givers in the world of our VN. We didn’t want to create a bunch of random OCs in a community like this where people are super creative and everyone has such lovely characters. It just made sense to us to cast them instead of making our own. (though we have some original characters of our own in the game too) <3
I’m sorry the blog was confusing to you we get a surprising amount of asks… hm. Actually you have a really good point. I’ll make a tag for development posts and one for answers to asks and link them properly. Maybe I should write an FAQ. Thank you for bringing this to my attention! <3
Hello everyone, this is a bit of an… ‘out of the order’-post, but I’ve just had a thought.
The Expression sheets we’re making would probably work really well for RP blogs and such. (*points up at the Tails image*)
Do you have an RP blog? Or a friend who has one? Maybe you’re just in an active RP with someone else? Let me know if that’s something you’d be interested in. Because I wouldn’t mind cutting the expressions down to a better size and making them available for download for you guys. (Once they’re all done of course)
It’s just a thought <3 Let me know what you think.
Not an ask, but I love the precious bean and the artstyle!! Everything here is so beautifullldsgdsg good luck with making the game! (EveryonehasamazingOCsyoOO)
!!! Thank you so much! Trust me it means the world to us <3 We’ll do our best with this game!!!
Also I could NOT agree more. The OCs are all SO lovely. I wish I could just post them all right now. I love them so much! I’m really happy we decided to fill the VN world with OCs because I get to see so many great characters now. It’s just delightful.
Will there be moments where the main characters or oc’s break the forth wall or get out of character?
Honestly, I can’t say that for sure yet. While most of the game is written already, I know from experience that a bunch of the dialogue is going to change while it’s being put into the actual game. So it’s very possible. Actually I think I wrote one scene like that into the Demo, already.
Why isn't there sex scenrs in this game? I'd be way more interested if I could fuck all the characters, can you guys do a 18+ game instead???
We would hereby like to formerly apologize that this entirely non-profit game which is being created with a lot of love by a really small developer team, in their free time, does not meet your personal tastes or expectations and we have thus lost your clearly invaluable support.
Furthermore we’d like to apologize for chosing
the route of putting our focus on the huge action adventure plot, many
of the lovely canon characters of the Sonic franchise, and even more fan
created characters.
And last but not least we are terribly sorry about the amount of clothes that are featured in our game which, we understand, must be deeply disturbing for you.
Thank you for bringing your concerns to our attention. We wish you all the best to find content creators willing to cater to your personal needs for free while ignoring just about everyone else. I’m sure every minor following this project would also like to apologize to you for the inconvenience they impose upon your life by simply existing.
Excuse me but is there like specific rules for submitting an OC? I'm on phone so i think i'm missing a few things
Here is the original recruitement post <3 it should have all the information you need. But if you can’t open it on mobile or have more questions feel free to always ask <3
Are these OCs just for the demo? Or are they gonna appear in the final game too?
They will appear in both, the demo and the final game UwU in… some capacity. Unfortunately I can’t tell you more. But yes! The OCs who are in the Demo will make a return.
Age: 20 Gender: Female Short description of personality: An adventurous archaeologist with a passion for history as well as discovery, she spends her days traveling in hopes of finding anything with historical value. Always happy, smiling and eager for the adrenaline rush of the next big thrill, next to nothing brings her down Hobbies: Free Climbing anything she can find. Stargazing. Extreme Ping-pong. Looking into historical sites or books. Traveling to different locations.
Are you okay with us posting/reblogging this to our dev blog? Yes
We fell in love with her design on first sight. And I mean how could we not. Just look at her. What a fantastic design!! *O* She just looks like so much fun.
I hope we’ll do her justice in the Demo and later in the full game >W<
Name: Marshall (Mars) the Lynx Age: 22 Preferred Pronouns: He/His Personality/Hobbies: He’s mostly a blank slate bc I haven’t used him for a lot. But he’s a fairly energetic mechanic! He loves tinkering and fixing things, and helping strangers in need. Yes you have my permission to post and use this character!
Here is the first of the beautiful OCs who’re going to join in early by taking part in the Demo “Sonic and the True King - Before the Fall”
And can I just say! What a delightful character. Even if he’s still mostly a blank slate his design is awesome! >W<!!!
Thank you so much@nanasityfor submitting your boy to us!!!
